On Dec. 19, 2008, a 27-year-old man named Tim DeChristopher, troubled by American energy policy and its contribution to global warming, broke the law.
He did so by attending a federal auction in Utah, where energy developers were bidding on parcels of Utah wildland that the Bush administration had made available for oil and gas development. DeChristopher bid aggressively, driving up the price of some parcels and winning 14 of his own — some 22,000 acres in all — to the tune of $1.8 million. He had no means to pay.
“I understand that prison is a very horrible place,” DeChristopher told me last fall, when I had a chance to sit down with him for a lengthy interview. “But I’ve been scared for my future for a long time. And I think the scariest thing that I see is staying on the path that we’re on right now. Obedience, to me, is much scarier than going to prison.”
He faced 10 years and some $750,000 in fines.
On Tuesday, the now 29-year-old DeChristopher, who was convicted in March of two felonies associated with his exploits, was sentenced to two years in prison and was promptly taken into custody. He also faces $10,000 in fines.
The judge had barred DeChristopher’s defense team from explaining to the jury why he disrupted the auction — because he saw the auction as both illegal and contributing to the “exacerbation of global warming and climate change,” according to court documents.
Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
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Does he have relations in Norway?
He should sue the UN IPCC, Bill McKibben and Al Gore for convincing him of CACC which led him to break the law.
Doubtless all those “celebs” bemoaning his conviction will be rushing to offer him a job when he gets out of the pen.
Let us all make a diary note for two years hence.
I was in court this morning. Basically this jerks sister felt the same way about personal property and had absconded with over $30k worth of my wife’s jewelry. The court did not agree. I guess laws mean something in some places.
In related news:
“Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Warmist Bill McKibben: Think about how warm you would have been last week if Tim DeChristopher hadn’t committed several felonies
Bill McKibben: Tim DeChristopher Is Going to Jail, Now It’s Our Turn
Because the oil and gas under that ground needs to stay there. The carbon it contains is, we now know, ruinous — it’s what is heating the atmosphere, setting new temperature records every day. If you sweated through last week’s record heat, if your crops are withering in the southwest’s epic drought, if you watched the Mississippi swallow your town — then Tim DeChristopher acted for you.”
http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2011/07/warmist-bill-mckibben-think-about-how.html
We’d be better off living in caves and dying of smallpox and worn out teeth by the age of 25 – with an infant mortality rate of 80%.
Why wasn’t hansen bidding?
Imagine the other inmates. “You got here by WHAT?”
They should have given him more time.
An appropriate sentence would be hard labor until Manhattan drowns.
Good one! Or maybe he could be put to work filling sandbags.They’ve only got until 2018 until the flooding starts.
If his watermelon friends register him as a CO2 emitting entity, they can claim EU Carbon credits for his reduced footprint during his time in jail, thereby turning over a nice little earner.
A longer sentence could see him come out a millionaire lol
I love a happy ending.